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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
John Key chooses red
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Public airing: Cheeky campers set up a makeshift laundry in the QLDC library carpark on Monday afternoon.
Photo: SUPPLIED
Freedom campers failing to pay fines
By BROOKE GARDINER
Queenstown's
DIRTY LAUNDRY
More than $230,000 worth of fines
have been issued to freedom
campers in the Queenstown Lakes
District since late last year but the
majority remain unpaid.
Lakes Environmental corporate
and regulatory manager Lee
Webster said 1158 infringement
notices had been issued since
December 22 but only 348 had
been paid leaving $162,000 in
outstanding fines.
The council introduced its free-
dom camping bylaws in 2011 to
deal with audacious visitors and
tourists who camped on road-
sides, in carparks and reserves
and set up unsightly makeshift
campsites, often leaving rubbish
and human waste behind.
Once an infringement notice has
been issued, campers have 28 days
to pay the $200 fine before they are
sent a reminder. After 56 days the
fines go before the court.
Mr Webster was confident about
the council's chances of seeing
more of the fines paid.
''A greater percentage of the fines
this year have been issued to
domestic visitors rather than
rental cars.''
In December, the council toned
down its freedom camping bylaw
to recognise responsible camping
as part of traditional kiwi culture.
However, the new rules don't give
council staff the power to deal
with all unsightly habits of
campers arriving in the resort.
Council staff were powerless to do
anything about campers who set
up a makeshift clothesline
between two cars in the carpark at
the front of the council's library
and main office in Queenstown
last Monday, Mr Webster said.
''They're not breaking any rules.
If it becomes offensive it could be
a police matter,'' Mr Webster said.
Southern Lakes
Riding
high
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Confidential p8
Tourist magnet p18